Ok, bon like I had said in the previous message, we are in a different world...or back to our normal world. Yeah coz its Europe here or the States for sure close to both.
We arrived on monday 15th of October in this modern city of Santiago, after a comfortable although a bit noisy 24h bus ride. Yes a bit noisy since a group of miners were travelling back home. Miners...ha...or whaouu...again there is a world between the chilean miners and the one we had just seen working in Potosi. All of them wearing jeans, nice shirts, with cell phones were listenning to music or calling their wife. They are employed by an australian mining company which make them work 20 days and rest 10 days in their home in south chile earning about 1200USD! Bref, they talk to us about the good wines they have, about the nice girls they dream of when at work and about the very nice place to visit in south Chile! Chilean travel and visit a lot their country.When we were in San Pedro, we met a 3 kids chilean family that had come from Santiago, for a 4 days week end and were sandboarding with us. The father was a doctor and had plan to take two of their children in Switzerland where he was going the week after for a Medical congress!! But added to all those habit and cultural changes, phisycally they are also very different in the sense that there is no more indigenous or very little. Of course the few left are like in Mexico marginalised and banned from modern life.
Bref it has now been 4 days that we've been staying in Santiago and life is easy, the metro works really well and bus complete it so that it is safe and rapid to move intown. We even enjoyed a Football game at the national stadium opposing Chile vs Peru 2-0! Tomorrow the plan is to try to take off and land in valparaiso one of the nicest and most charming city in Chile. We'll see what's waiting for us...
We arrived on monday 15th of October in this modern city of Santiago, after a comfortable although a bit noisy 24h bus ride. Yes a bit noisy since a group of miners were travelling back home. Miners...ha...or whaouu...again there is a world between the chilean miners and the one we had just seen working in Potosi. All of them wearing jeans, nice shirts, with cell phones were listenning to music or calling their wife. They are employed by an australian mining company which make them work 20 days and rest 10 days in their home in south chile earning about 1200USD! Bref, they talk to us about the good wines they have, about the nice girls they dream of when at work and about the very nice place to visit in south Chile! Chilean travel and visit a lot their country.When we were in San Pedro, we met a 3 kids chilean family that had come from Santiago, for a 4 days week end and were sandboarding with us. The father was a doctor and had plan to take two of their children in Switzerland where he was going the week after for a Medical congress!! But added to all those habit and cultural changes, phisycally they are also very different in the sense that there is no more indigenous or very little. Of course the few left are like in Mexico marginalised and banned from modern life.
Bref it has now been 4 days that we've been staying in Santiago and life is easy, the metro works really well and bus complete it so that it is safe and rapid to move intown. We even enjoyed a Football game at the national stadium opposing Chile vs Peru 2-0! Tomorrow the plan is to try to take off and land in valparaiso one of the nicest and most charming city in Chile. We'll see what's waiting for us...
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